Mount Washington to re-open Thursday

Celebrating a healthy new snowfall of 65 centimetres, Mount Washington declared this week the beginning of Winter 2.0, and announced its re-opening Feb. 13.The most unpredictable weather the resort has seen in years, more than 100 cm of additional snow is predicted to fall in the Comox Valley through the weekend.

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Celebrating a healthy new snowfall of 65 centimetres, Mount Washington declared this week the beginning of Winter 2.0, and announced its re-opening Feb. 13.

The most unpredictable weather the resort has seen in years, more than 100 cm of additional snow is predicted to fall in the Comox Valley through the weekend.

Brent Curtain, spokesperson for Mount Washington, said he hasn’t seen this kind of snow accumulations on the mountains for some time.

“We were joking that this is the second version, version 2.0 of our winter season,” explains resort spokesperson Brent Curtain. “And judging by the forecasts, version 2.0 is going to be much bigger and better than version 1.0.”

Mount Washington will open most of the front side of the mountain and the Nordic Centre and new tube park.

“Our plan all along was to reopen once the snow returned so we're extremely happy to call our staff back to the mountain and continue with our plans for the second half of the season,” director of business operations and marketing Don Sharpe said in the statement.

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Celebrating a healthy new snowfall of 65 centimetres, Mount Washington declared this week the beginning of Winter 2.0, and announced its re-opening Feb. 13.The most unpredictable weather the resort has seen in years, more than 100 cm of additional snow is predicted to fall in the Comox Valley through the weekend.